incubate

Meaning

Verb

  • To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
  • To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.

Origin

  • From Latin incubātus, past participle of
  • incubāre, from Latin
  • in- and cubāre.

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